Late on Wednesday the 23rd of November 2011 detectives from Tasmania Police’s Fraud & e-Crime Investigation Services charged a 37-year-old St Helens woman with offences in relation to an alleged $478,000 fraud from the Department of Education.

It is alleged the woman, who had been employed in a finance role at two different schools, has stolen and forged school cheques over a number of years. It is also alleged the woman made false entries into the schools’ finance system to conceal the thefts.

The woman has been charged with 103 counts of stealing, 103 counts of insertion of false information as data, 103 counts of forgery, and 102 counts of uttering. She has been bailed to appear at the Hobart Magistrates Court on the 9th of January 2012.

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